Cross-polliNation – a podcast about creativity & innovation

What's changing in the way we learn? President at Xpan Interactive, Ron Thiele chats e-learning in organizations & leading a company of e-learning explorers with tech, storytelling, adult education, AR & VR.

Nickita is an IT project manager, former artist & Passions Pilot creator. She's a multi-potentialite with multiple passions. We chat multi-potentialite careers & multi-potentialites as expert cross-pollinators & innovation ninjas, as well as managing many passions with Passions Pilot.

Tracy Lay cross-pollinates books, art, design, language & branding in a new kind of business, Digivisual Design. Tracy chats on designing to connect readers & entrepreneurial authors. She explains why creativity & design reach much deeper than a pretty book cover or webpage.

How can companies innovate better? Janice Francisco leads BridgePoint Effect. She tells us why employee creativity is organizations' best resource to respond to change & create new solutions. Janice explains how incremental innovation creates value & why it's underrated.

What’s civic innovation & how can it help cities? Elisha Muskat is a social innovation leader. She tells us how cities can innovate to include more of their citizens & opportunities to solve old problems in exciting new ways.

Shari Hughson has been a nurse, entrepreneur, intrapreneur & social innovator who lived off the land for 7 years. She talks about the lessons of an unconventional life, how intrapreneurs & entrepreneurs are alike & why curiosity & execution are essential qualities to create something new.

What is design & why does it matter? Kelly Shaw, Design Director at J5's Social Impact Lab, demystifies design thinking. He talks about how companies & non-profits can use good design to innovate & solve problems & why Spotify is his favourite example of good design.

Coalition Snow is an industry upstart. CEO Jen Gurecki gets frank about breaking into the outdoor industry, shaking things up & creating a platform around community & social change while manufacturing women’s skis & snowboards. Bring your sisu spirit & a bottle of bourbon.

Coalition Snow is an industry upstart. CEO Jen Gurecki gets frank & funny about breaking into the outdoor industry, shaking things up & creating a platform around community & social change while manufacturing women’s skis & snowboards. Bring your sisu spirit & a bottle of bourbon.

Christa Avampato is a product development expert, business writer & award-winning fiction author. She talks about why tech is about stories; biomimicry & product design, the career story you need to tell & reinventing your career & life through creativity & imagination.